CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Precedent, Adversarial System, Conditional Sentence
23 Nov 2016
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The travelling court [literally a traveling court, they travel town to town (because the towns too small)] Participants [participants change every time (not fair for them to travel for a living)] Doli incapax (too young for evil) (12 or younger) Considerable discretion (using their better judgement ex: plea bargains) Increase in workload (doing more with less) (lots of cut backs - 20615$) Cultural barriers (most are white but are serving a population that isn"t white) Reasonable grounds that detention is necessary in the interest of the public. If not released, must appear within 24 hours. As much a 80% of provincial jail population. Lack of services (can see a doctor, dentists etc. ) *remand is dead time, you have no idea how long you"re going to be there* Psychiatric treatment until deemed t to stand trial. Guilty or not guilty (pleaing not guilty doesn"t actually mean thats true)
